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HER MEMORY STILL GONE.
NO ONE CLAIMS THE PRETTY CRAsT
GIRL At BELLEYUE

Justice Duny Relieves that There r. He.
nance In her story. but Warden O'Rourke
Doubts It-shc Once Livedin New Orleans.
The well-dressod girl who wandered into
the Home for Women In Second avenue on
Friday, and who said she was Nellie Marina.
and again that she was Nellie Brown, is still In
Bellevue Hospital. Tho doctors are not GER
tain that she is insane. She says continually
that men arc going to kill her, and that she
would kill herself II she only knew tho
name OF tho poison she wants to
take. She has lucid intervals. whom che
talks sensibly enough about what is going on
around her. but she appears ~ remember
nothing OF tho past. DR.. Braisted, the physi-
clan at tho insane pavilion, takes no stock in
tho theory that tho girl Is suffering from tho
effects OF drugs His opinion Is that she 10
suffering from historical mania. but he Ia not
certain that she is not romancing He admits
that her case Is puzzle that will take several
days to solve.
The girl Is probably Cuban, and. as far ~
can be inferred from what she said on Satur-
day. It is believed that che lived In New Or
leans. She walked Into the nurses room In
the pavilion. with a heavy shawl wrapped
around her neck and shoulders to see a Sum
Of the cold. She said nothing but stood staring
until the reporter spoke. s
Where are your relations 2" she was asked
They are dead,' she answered. sadly. A.,
events OF the day before, and. said that she had
at the Police Court. Then her eyes sparklssd
na s eare nasa II the
Where do you want to go r
Nowhere" she said mournfully.
As the took her back to her n apartment a
men as there are around this place.,
A.. =, they are not crazy men,. SAID the nurses
"They must be- crazy to question me-" she
There's not mark of any kind on the girls
They are Of American make and are Az In
She Is unable to tell where they are, but says
sh Sa sss e sn Of sns sSh IL lie them
Aestsrday Nelly game no. here perfectly ra-
thirty cents. She wanted to pay me then, but #
the evening. She ate. her dinner without OK
citing our. suspicious in tho least. After leav-
ing the table she took sent IN q corner Of the
noon noon 20 About ) o'clock approached her. and
noticed that she looked queer: / SURPRISED
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spring to KIN her, and asked for q pistol. !
noticed that whenever she heard name
spoken she would write it down in q little
book she carried. The book was full OF twad-
working people r. the world First she s, said q
was, Brown: Brown, she explained. was z
good name for working girl. Sho said that
she had tried hard to earn her living at type
writing; | ASSIGNED her to sleep in f. room
and gloves on"
ton, that she was educated at the Convent OF
the Sacred Heart, near New Orleans: that she
had been wandering for at least two weeks.
and that she had not slept during that time.
When she came to the Homo she wore a ring,
but this she threw away. She carried g small
Ign, but she came to the Home empty handed.
Justice Duffy said last night that he was
deeply Interested In the girl. She was a Cuban,
he thought. and had been waited upon BY
probably journeyed here by water. for she ex-
pressed desire to leave by the ocean.
There is certainly a romance" said the
little Judge behind her fragmentary story"
Warden O'Rourke OF Bellevue said that he
considered the girl q humbug.